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In many parts of the world, torture, harassment and persecution are used to target individuals who criticize , believe, have secrets or religion...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 01:40
The Andaman Islands were devastated in the 2004 tsunami, and many of the ancient tongues are dying out, but not because of the tsunami.
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Sandip Roy on the short film "After My Garden Grows" with filmmaker Megan Mylan and Monica Burman who is featured in the film.
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 05:00
An article published by The Guardian in October provides a stark exposé of one of the largest Chinese suppliers of premium tuna to the Japanese mar...
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 05:16
In Episode 18 of Behind The Thread, we look at wages around the world. Sokny Say of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 40:07
Sandip Roy looks at the story behind "Upaj."
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 04:30
In this episode: brand new chillout, Deep House, Psy-Trance, Techno, Minimal, House, and Trance tracks! Plus: Mongo Speaks!
- Added: Oct 18, 2014
- Length: 01:00:00
When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:44
In Part II of a 2-part series on the Global Water Contract, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill explains the Committee's progressive recommendations...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 05:21
A joint Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi – a Pakistani and an Indian. Now if that doesn’t embarrass the two belligerent...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:30
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 14:29
Ebola is Airborne and the Government knows it. But they're telling you it isn't. And they're not closing off air traffic from the affected countr...
- Added: Oct 12, 2014
- Length: 04:59
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga.
Something many of them ha...
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
In 1998, a private commission was assembled to create a framework for worldwide understanding of fresh water as an inalienable human right. In this...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 05:04
The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 04:41
Thousands of miles from Edinburgh in the heart of Kolkata there remains a piece of land that is indisputably Scottish. Sandip Roy takes us there.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy discovers one way in which Jews and Muslims cooperate through generations.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
In 1996, the high level intergovernmental Arctic Council was formed to promote cooperation and interaction among the Arctic states. In this episode...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 05:23
A Jewish museum just opened in Kolkata. Not a brick and mortar museum, but an online museum.
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy reflects on the meaning, and sound, of India old and new.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 04:30
This week marks two major milestones for World Ocean Radio. First, this episode is the 300th audio broadcast since World Ocean Radio first aired in...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 05:10
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
R.D. Burman would have turned 75 last week and Bollywood threw a great birthday bash.
Sandip Roy and Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington rem...
- Added: Jun 30, 2014
- Length: 04:30
This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.
Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 5
